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Summary of Meteorological Observations for 1836 ; 
made in Fayette co., Tennessee, by M. Rhea. 
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Monthly range of barometer, 1.91 inches. 
The months of January, February, March, and 
first part of April, were unusually wet and unplea- 
sant, with strong winds from S. E. and N. W, and 
much thunder in February. This latter month 
was remarkable, in the early part of it, for excessive 
co d in East Tennessee. The thermometer then 
ranging here from 12 to 40 degrees at sunrise, 
brreat ram fell here on the 12th and 25th of Febru- 
ary, that on the latter from the N. E„ an uncommon 
